Poison-distributer



(No Model.)

F. EATON.

POISON DISTRIBUTER.

No. 404,077. Patented May 28, 1889.-

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS N PHERS Pholoulhagnbhar. Wishlngium D, (L

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED EATON, OF OONIVAY, NElV llAlllPSIIIRE.

POISON-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,077, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed March 8, 1889. Serial No. 302,495. (No model.)

T0 to whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED EATON, of Conway, in the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and Improved Poison-Distributer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a garden implement that is designed for use in distributing poison upon plants; and to the end named the invention consists of two poison-receptacles and a means for jarring said receptacles, all as will be hereinafter more fully explained, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved poison-distributor. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof, looking from the handles toward the wheel and Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the poison-receptacles.

In the drawings, 10 represents the main frame, which is supported by a carrier-wheel, 11. This wheel may be arranged as represented in the drawings, or the wheel may be placed in any convenient position. The frame 10 carries two vertical standards, 12 and 12, which serve as supports for levers 13 and 13, said levers being upheld by pins 2, which pass through any one of the apertures a that are formed in the standards 12 and 12. The inner ends of the levers 13 and 13 are slotted, and through the lever-slots there is passed a bolt, 15, which engages a vertical slide, 16, the lower end of said slide being provided with a forwardlyextending pin or projection, 17, that extends into the path of a series of pins, 18, that are carried by the wheel 11.

The slide 16 is guided within a box, 1.9,and when in working position is held, as represented in Fig. 1, by a pin, 20; but when it is desired to throw the slide projection out of the path of the pins 18 the pin 20 is withdrawn and the slide is moved toward the opposite end of the box 19. Then if the pin 20 be again inserted the slide will be held in the required position.

To the ends of the levers 13 and 13, I connect boxes 30 and 30, said boxes being provided with straps 31, through which the le vers pass, the boxes being held to place by set-screws 33, which are carried by the straps and arranged to bear upon the levers. The boxes 30 and 30 are provided with top covers, 34, and with hinged bottoms 35, above which bottoms there are perforated bottoms 36; or the bottoms 36 might be made of wire-netting.

In operation, if the implement be advancing, as indicated by the arrow shown in Fig. 1, the pins 18 of the wheel 11 will bear successively upon the pin or projection 17 of the slide 16, and as the wheel advances in the direction of its arrow the slide will be drawn downward, the pin of the wheel 11 following the pin with which the slide is in engage ment, operating to force such slide-pin from engagement with the pin that is acting to carry it downward, so that the weight of the boxes will carry the slide upward, the upward movement of the slide being suddenly checked by the following pin, as will be readily un derstood, this sudden checking serving to sift the material carried by the boxes 30 and 30. The boxes 30 and 30 may be adjusted toward or from the standards 12 12, in order that they may be operated properly upon the plants to be treated, and avertical adjustment may be obtained by altering the connection between the levers and their supporting-standards.

Having th us described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a frame and the supporting-standards, of the vibrating levers pivoted to the standards, boxes provided with perforated bottoms attached to the outer ends of the lever-arms, and a vertically-reciprocating slide attached to the inner ends of the levers and operating the same, substantially as described.

2. In a poison-distributer, the combination, with an operating-lever, of a box having a perforated bottom and laterally adjustable along the lever, and binding-straps for securing the box to the lever, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a poison-distributer, the combination, with a frame and a carrying-wheel journaled within the same, said wheel having a series of laterally-projecting pins upon one side arranged near its edge, of the upright standards attached to each side of the frame, the vibrating lever pivoted to the uprights, a vertically-reciprocating slide having a projection upon its lower end adapted to engage with the pins on the Wheel, the upper end of said slide'being adjustably secured to the inner ends of the vibrating lever, and the boxes having perforated bottoms secured to the outer ends of the lever, substantially as shown and described.

4:. In a poison-distributer, the box 30, provided with strap 31 and set-screw 33, perforated bottom 36, and hinged bottom 35, all arranged and adapted to operate substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The combination, with a pair of boxes, of vertically-vibrating levers upon which the boxes are supported, a vertically-reciprocating slide to which the levers are connected, a carrier-Wheel provided with laterally-extending pins, and a pin or projection carried by the slide and extending into the path. of the carrier-Wheel projections, as and for the purpose stated.

FRED EATON.

Witnesses:

C. W. WILDER, A. D. MERROW. 

